The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... hear none of his admirable sayings , I shall compensate for this want by inserting a collection of them , for which I am indebted to my worthy friend Mr. Langton , whose kind communications have been separately inter- woven in many ...
... hear none of his admirable sayings , I shall compensate for this want by inserting a collection of them , for which I am indebted to my worthy friend Mr. Langton , whose kind communications have been separately inter- woven in many ...
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... hear him , ) Then the proper expression should have been , Sir , if you don't lie you're a rascal . " - " Per- " His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last ...
... hear him , ) Then the proper expression should have been , Sir , if you don't lie you're a rascal . " - " Per- " His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last ...
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... hear a man , of the weight and dignity of John- son , repeating such humble attempts at poetry , The correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine who subscribes himself SCIOLUS , furnishes the following supple ment : " A lady of my ...
... hear a man , of the weight and dignity of John- son , repeating such humble attempts at poetry , The correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine who subscribes himself SCIOLUS , furnishes the following supple ment : " A lady of my ...
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... hear more from another person ; ( plainly intimating that he meant Mr. Burke . ) O , no , ( said Mr. Burke ) it is enough for me to have rung the bell to him . " " " Beauclerk having observed to him of one of their friends , that he was ...
... hear more from another person ; ( plainly intimating that he meant Mr. Burke . ) O , no , ( said Mr. Burke ) it is enough for me to have rung the bell to him . " " " Beauclerk having observed to him of one of their friends , that he was ...
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... hear him , exactly as he would , if he thought he was within hearing . " The applause of a single human being is of great consequence : This he said to me with great earnestness of manner , very near the time of his decease , on ...
... hear him , exactly as he would , if he thought he was within hearing . " The applause of a single human being is of great consequence : This he said to me with great earnestness of manner , very near the time of his decease , on ...
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324. oldal - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
100. oldal - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
104. oldal - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
47. oldal - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
48. oldal - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
459. oldal - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
151. oldal - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
113. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
80. oldal - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
316. oldal - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.